CEMAR Hall of Fame

2010

Gina Filleramo received the A.R.A. Taylor Graduate Fellowship from UNB.

Katy Hind was this year's Let's Talk Science National Coordinator of the
Year Award runner up.

Sarah Hamsher won the Paul C. Silva Student Travel Grant from the International
Phycological Society and a travel award from the International Society for
Diatom Research to attend the 21st International Diatom Symposium.

Bridgette Clarkston won a $1000 Phycological Society of America Hoshaw award
to travel to the P.S.A. annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Susan Clayden won
the Northeast Algal Society (NEAS) Robert T. Wilce Award for the meritorious
poster by a graduate student at the meeting in Amherst, MA and the
Phycological Society of America (PSA) student poster award at the meeting
in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Katy Hind won the Hoshaw Travel Award from the Phycological Society
of America ($1000), the John S. Little International Study Fellowship
($1900), and the City of Fredericton - Ambassador Award ($100).

2008

Bridgette Clarkston won the Robert T. Wilce Award for best oral paper presentation
at the Northeast Algal Society meeting.

Susan Clayden received
a British Phycological Society (BPS) student bursary to attend a marine field
course ‘Collecting and Identifying Seaweeds’ in
Wales.

Katy Hind won the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
Student Poster Award - 2nd Place ($300), the
BioGENESIS Evolutionary Applications Poster Award (Honorable Mention), the
UNB Biology Teaching Assistant of the Year ($200), and the Florence M.
Christie Research Fellowship in Botany ($1000).

Hana Kucera won the Graduate Student Award of Merit from the Senior Women
Academic Administrators of Canada ($2500).

2007

Gary Saunders received the Frank Shipley Collins Award: meritorious service
to the Society and Phycology, presented by the Northeast Algal Society at the
46th
annual meeting in Narragansett, RI.

Susan Clayden won honorable mention for her poster at the Phycological Society
of America (PSA) meeting in Providence, Rhode Island.

Dan McDevit received the A.R.A. Taylor Graduate Fellowship from UNB.

Hana Kucera won the Canadian Barcode of Life Science Symposium Student Poster
Award ($250), the Board of Governors Merit Award from UNB ($4000), and a Doctoral
Level (PGS-D) NSERC scholoarship worth $42,000.

2006

Susan Clayden received
the John S. Little International Fellowship to attend the ‘Young
Systematists’ Forum, Natural History Museum, London.

Dan McDevit won the Robert T.
Wilce Award for best poster at the Northeastern Algal Symposium for his poster
entitled "Assessing
species richness
and phylogenetic relationships of the brown algal (Phaeophyceae) flora
of Canada".

Hana Kucera received the A.R.A. Taylor Graduate Fellowship
and the Vaughan Graduate Fellowship in Marine Sciences from UNB.

2005

Susan Clayden’s talk at the University of
New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference was awarded 3rd place in the life
and physical sciences.

Dr. Chris Lane received the Governor General's Gold Award for this dissertation research 'Molecular investigations in the brown algal order Laminariales.'

Hana Kucera received the Board of Governors Merit Award from UNB ($2500).

2004

Susan Clayden received a “Friends of the Farlow Fellowship” Farlow
Herbarium, Harvard University to visit the collections and to assist with field
work in New England.

April
22, 2002 - Colin Bates (Saunders/Chopin) received the Robert T. Wilce
Award, for best graduate student oral presentation at the 41st Northeast Algal
Symposium, for his presentation entitled “Optimizing methodologies in
intertidal seaweed biomonitoring - how to get the
biggest bang for your phycological buck”.

March
12, 2002 - Colin Bates received an NSERC PGS-B scholarship, worth
$38,200, which he will take up at UBC, starting September, 2002.

Feb
22, 2002 - CEMAR members Penny Humby and Colin Bates won awards at
the 10th Annual UNB Graduate Student Research Conference. Penny took the Merrill
Edwards award (first place) and Colin tied for 2nd place in the graduate student
oral presentation category.

2001

Colin Bates - Vaughan Graduate Research
Scholarship

Several graduate students from Gary Saunders' lab won
awards at the 15th Annual Northwest Algal Symposium in Whidbey Island, Wash.

Chris Lane won the Best Student Presentation Award
for his work, Using Additional Gene Systems to Understand Kelp Evolution,
coauthored by Charlene Mayes and Dr. Saunders.

Virginia Lehmkuhl won the Best Student Poster Award
for a poster entitled Morphological Diversity & Molecular Relatedness of the
Species of the Red Algal Genus Plocamium, coauthored by Dr. Saunders.

Jennifer Dalen took home Second Place Student
Poster Award honours for her poster presentation entitled Taxonomic Affinities
of Species in the Genus Leptofauchea, coauthored by Dr. Saunders.

Colin Bates won the Second Place Student
Presentation Award for an oral presentation entitled Monitoring Intertidal
Seaweed Communities for Symptoms of Environmental Stress in the Outer Bay of
Fundy. The presentation was coauthored by Dr. Saunders and Thierry Chopin
(SJ).

Han-Gu Choi, a post-doctoral fellow, gave a poster
presentation entitled Phylogenetic Relationships of Polysiphonia and its
Relatives Based on Anatomical and Nuclear Small-subunit rDNA Sequence Data. The
presentation was coauthored by M.S. Kim, Michael Guiry and Dr. Saunders.

Member
of the Executive Council, and Treasurer, of the International Phycological
Society.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Algal Society.
Member of the Board of Directors, and Treasurer, of the Aquaculture Association
of Canada.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Coastal Zone Canada Association.
Advisor to the International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden.
Member of the Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Workgroup (EMAN, Environment
Canada).
Member of the New Brunswick Human Resource Development and Training Committee.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Coastal Action Programme ACAP-Saint
John.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership and
Chair of the Working Group “Nutrification of Coastal Waters”.
Vice-Consul Honoraire de France.